[Web4lib] Facebook (& Second Life)

[Robert Balliot]

Exactly.  Unfortunately, at that point it becomes a reaction
to environmental consequences rather than the outcome
of active experimentation and timely adaptations.

R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Chris Strauber <cstrauber at gmail.com> wrote:

> People and what they do are a statement of priorities for libraries.
> At my last library, thirteen staff, the web was part-time work for two
> employees. At my current one, with sixty, it's full-time work for one
> person and part-time work for a couple more. Given that none of our
> collections are accessible and/or findable except via our website,
> that seems like an odd arrangement.
>
> It's not the money, it's the priorities. By headcount, microfilm is
> vastly more important to most libraries than the web. Which is not to
> say that microfilm and books and the rest of our non-digital services
> aren't important, only that there will come a point at which "we're
> busy with other things" will stop working as a response to the way
> information seeking and use is changing.
>
> Chris Strauber
> Humanities Reference Librarian
> Tisch Library
> Tufts University
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do not know of too many libraries sitting around with excess employees
> > available, do you?
>
>
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